SOME LITERARY TERMS AND FIGURES OF SPEECH YOU SHOULD KNOW

 SOME LITERARY TERMS AND FIGURES OF SPEECH YOU SHOULD KNOW

1. PROTASIS : The opening part of a dramatic work.

2. APOTHEGM : A short but very loaded expression for example, Love Is Blind!.

3. NEMESIS or POETIC JUSTICE : A rehearsal on an antagonist of an evil deed that is done by him himself.

4. PLOT ACCOUNT or SYNOPSIS : The summary of a literary work of art.

5. BLURB : A short exaggerated statement meant to advertise.

6. FARCE : A type of play whose credibility is sacrificed for the sake of humour.

7. BIOGRAPHY : An act of publishing a work under the author's real name.

8. ANTONYMS : A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.

9. SARCASM : A bitter and wounding remark in literature that tends to hurt one's feelings.

10. PATHOS : It is the quality in literary work that evokes tenderness and pity.

11. MYTH : A historic story dealing with spiritual, natural and supernatural forces.

12. REPETITION : is the reoccurring of a particular sentence in a literature work probably on every paragraph. The main function of Repitition is to lay emphasis and "Remember the important message in the poem".

13. APOSTROPHE : A poet's direct address to an absent person or non-person.

14. BLANK VERSE : A pause in the middle of a line.

15. the dominant figure of speech or figurative device in "TREES BEND TO LET IT PASS" is Personification and Hyperbole.

16. The figurative devices in the line "TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR" are ALLITERATION, SIMILE and IMAGERY.

17. "A gorilla in the zoo, that's what you look like" is an example of a SIMILE.

18. "UP and DOWN" is an example of ANTHITHESIS.

19. TONE : tone in literary work means atmosphere.

20. MOOD : the mood as to do with the general feelings of the writer or the poet.

👉 NOTE : The tone of a comedy is always light and humorous, while the tone of Farce is hilarious.

21. ACONYMS : it's when a character suggest the title of a literary work, like the name of a particular character is used for a work of art. For example, Merlin, Commando etc.

Figures of speech

1. Alliteration : It is the sameness of two or more consonant sounds at the initial position it words in a line of poem or statement. e.g "God made man, man made money", "Blue Lorry Yellow Lorry".

2. Assonance : its the sameness two or more vowel sounds at the initial position of words.

3. Euphemism : it means passing a statement that is pleasant in an unpleasant or mild way. #NOTE : all tone of euphemism is shocking, outrageous and tragic. e.g "The man kicked the bucket", "Gentlemen of high way".

4. Paradox : a self contradictory statement at the surface level but when given a proper scrutiny e.g "The child is the father of the man"

5. Hendiadys : a rhetorical figure in which a sole or single idea id represented by two words connected by a conjunction, it is closed in resemblance with Zeugma. e.g "Your suggestion is a balm and a solution to the problem.,"This book is a good medicine and a panacea for curing my defect in literature.

6. Innuendo : this belongs to the same class with irony and sarcasm but has a different meaning. Thus, it is a clever way of passsing unpleasant comment, in order words. e.g" The man has ten wives but he is impotent".

7. Sarcasm : it tends to wound one's emotions. e.g "May I offer you a comb", "Close the door behind you".

8. Pun : simply means playing on words e.g "I pray not to be a prey"., "When I was jogging, I saw Mr Parken jogging a bottle of beer.

9. Onomatopoeia : when the sounds of something or word suggest it meaning. e.g" The enemy's uprising has been crunched", "Tick - tack, ding - dong.

10. Zeugma : it's the use of a conjunction to join two different verbs that ought to have been used differently.

11. Consonance: depicted from its name, it simply the repetition of consonant words in middle of words. e.g" Pitter and Patter [consonant tt], "bite and spite" .

12. Oxymoron : the juxtaposition of two contradicting words side by side.

13. Climax : it's the arranging of event in the ascending order. e.g " He came, he saw and conquer.

14. Anti-Climax : it's the arranging of event in descending order.

14. Rhetorical Question : A kind of question that doesn't require an answer because everyone already knows the answer or because such question makes no sense.

Some other occurring figures of speech in statements, words and poems are Anaphora, Antonomasia, Caesura, Enjambment, Syllepsis, Prolepsis, Bathos, Polysyndeton, Asyndeton, Allegory, Invective, Chiasmus, Satire, Parallepsis, Paraphrase, Synaesthesia, Epiphany.

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